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22 May, 2016

Mohammed Indimi: A fool and his money

Mohammed Indimi: A fool and his money - by Sunday Akoji


Mohammed Indimi: A fool and his money
Amouna and Hauwa, two daughters of Borno-born billionaire, Alhaji Mohammed Indimi graduated from the University of Lynn, in Florida, USA.
Their joyous billionaire father donated a $14 million (N4.2 billion) complex named after him as "Mohammed Indimi International Business Center" to Lynn University as part of the activities of the University Commencement Day.
This demagogue made his billions in Nigeria from oil wells his military dictator friend dashed him. 
He is the Chairman, CEO of Oriental Oil and Gas and he is reported as the tenth richest billionaire in Nigeria.
The Borno-born billionaire, Mohammed Indimi has never ever donated a plastic chair to the University of Maiduguri or any university in the Niger Delta; talk more of endowing a chair in any Nigerian university. 
But the irony is that he can afford to endow a chair and donate a $14 million complex to a US University, which by the way does not even need such gesture from him.
Hundreds of internally displaced people in Borno state need his Robinhood-like assistance from what he has stolen from the people. But whosai!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how Nigerian elite underdeveloped Nigeria, with due apologies to Walter Rodney, the author of the book, "How Europe underdeveloped Africa."
Sunday Akoji
- See more at: http://elombah.com/index.php/opinion/7228-mohammed-indimi-a-fool-and-his-money-by-sunday-akoji#sthash.7t7nRYvB.dpuf

04 May, 2015

Boko Haram: Obama snubs Nigeria again



Boko Haram: Obama snubs Nigeria again, gives $35m military support to France

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President Barack Obama has ordered the release of $35 million worth of U.S. military and defence assistance to France which has been backing the military of Chad, Niger and Mali in the fight against jihadist group, Boko Haram, ignoring Nigeria that has been at the centre of the five-year insurgency.
A press statement from the White House on Wednesday said the United States leader gave the support to enable France secure the three French-speaking African nations, who all share borders with Nigeria.
In the White House statement, President Obama gave authority to US Secretary of State, John Kerry, to facilitate the US assistance to Mali, Niger and Chad.
“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the authority under section 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the drawdown of up to $35 million in defense services of the Department of Defense to provide assistance to France in its efforts to secure Mali, Niger, and Chad from terrorists and violent extremists, and to make the determinations required under such section to direct such a drawdown,” the statement said.
The omission is seen as another fallout of the strained relations between Nigeria and the United States over the Boko Haram war.
Nigeria suspended a military training with the U.S. in 2014 after the Americans repeatedly blocked its effort to buy arms to fight Bok Haram.
The US government denied Nigeria the sales of US-made Cobra fighter-helicopters. New information now have revealed that the sales were coming from Israel which had okayed the deal from its own inventory, but needed US approval since the fighter-helicopters were from America.
The Israeli government under the terms of the US assistance cannot transfer the military helicopter to another foreign country except the US government approved it.
The United States had criticised the Nigerian military’s human rights record and its handling of the Boko Haram crisis, particular the search for over 200 schoolgirls abducted by the group, from Chibok, Borno State.
With the current administration winding down in less than a month, the American government now appears ready to provide improved assistance to Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram, once the Muhammadu Buhari presidency takes office May 29.
Last week in New York at the Time magazine Influential 100 people gala, top US government officials including Samantha Powers promised that the US will do more to support the search for the Chibok girls and the fight against Boko Haram in Nigeria.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/182340-boko-haram-obama-snubs-nigeria-again-gives-35m-military-support-to-france.html



18 January, 2015

“Black West Africa” and “Boko Haram” Are Not A Priority – White House

BLACK WEST AFRICA IS NOT A PRIORITY

If you are still expecting anything from America and 
 probably Europe  ..then watch this interview and analysis.


 Too Bad !!!

28 September, 2014

WHY AMERICA IS HINDERING NIGERIA'S FIGHT AGAINST BOKO HARAM




ince the recent brouhaha involving the use of Ayo Oritsejafor's private jet loaded with $9.3 million in cash on a covert arms run to South Africa, many Nigerian military generals have spoken out publicly on how the United States has continued to hinder Nigeria's efforts to procure arms from the U.S. and their western allies. Surely these arms are needed by the Nigerian army if they must defeat the dreaded terrorist group that have caused so much havoc in the northeast of Nigeria and elsewhere. On the face of it, it sounds like an improbable argument to make against the United States, after all, it is in American interest for Nigeria to defeat the Boko Haram. How can America then be hindering our fight if indeed they now have some of their men on the ground gathering intelligence and their drones hovering non-stop over the sambisa forest in search of the same Boko Haram terrorists. The answer to this question is a lot more complicated than it seems, but it boils down to how America is constrained by the rule of law while Nigeria isn't.
In spite of Obama's promises to help Nigeria defeat the Boko Haram, rescue the Chibok girls, and provide all the weapons necessary to achieve these things, one thing remain. Every weapon that is procured from the United States goes through Congress for vetting. This has been a long standing practice that predates Nigeria's problem with Boko Haram. For Congress to vet these arms purchases means that politicians in Washington DC have put many conditions that would virtually make it impossible for countries like Nigeria to directly procure arms from the United States government. It would have been easier for America to donate these arms to Nigeria, as they have done through the years to countries like Pakistan than for us to be purchasing them. In scrutinizing these arms deals, things like human right abuses, extra judicial killings by the police and the army become the hindering issues for countries like Nigeria to overcome before the US Congress.
Apparently persistent accusations by several human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other agencies have finally caught up with Nigeria, and many Nigerians are now crying foul. Some have said that the US does not have the moral right to impose such standards on Nigeria. Well, if you look at the Abu Ghraib incidence in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and ongoing police abuses across America, one can easily understand why any Nigerian might accuse America of playing double standards. But there is one remarkable difference; the rule of law always prevail in America, and when these things wash up in the surface the law must be seen to take its course. The US army and police can sometimes be a bunch of rednecks behaving as if they own the world, but once their violation of the law is made public, then they are often prosecuted to the fullest weight of the law. Even if their bosses wish to cover these things up, the ever-prying American media and the public will protest until these people are brought to justice. Civilization does not begin and end in driving fancy cars and living in big modern homes, it also requires the acquisition of sensibilities that can easily be offended by behaviors outside the acceptable norms.
In a place like Nigeria, most citizens do not give a damn if the police are killing criminals in droves and dumping them in the forest or river somewhere. We always justify these killings by assuring ourselves that these are good riddance. We always keep a blind eye in Nigeria, as long as our relatives are not the victims of these extra-judicial killings. This, I found out, is a huge problem in Nigeria. The average Nigerian is unlikely to rise up and protest extra-judicial killings or torture. It has for long been an open secret in Nigeria that the police sometimes eliminate threats of armed robbery and kidnapping simply by killing some of the detainees in their stations. I do not wish to become a crusader for suspected armed robbers and kidnappers, and if you have been a victim of either, you would most likely be glad to know that police officers are finally getting rid of the bad guys. But there is one problem. Several hundreds, perhaps thousands of suspects have been eliminated by the police and the army in the past few years, yet neither armed robbery nor kidnapping has decreased around the country. Some police officers, especially SARS would privately argue that such elimination is an effective way of carrying out justice. That to do otherwise will likely put those useless suspects before the Nigerian judiciary, probably awaiting trial for 5 to 10 years without any resolution.
Expedience is never the answer especially when a man's life is involved. Lately, many of these human rights organizations have paraded Nigerians on television testifying of various types of torture on them in different Nigeria police stations. Recently I saw a video on facebook that showed the most horrific scenes of Nigerian soldiers that lined up some Boko Haram suspects. They made these guys dug their own graves, and then shoot them one by one and simply push them into those graves. I am not a saint, but nothing offended my sensibilities more than watching that video. It is true that I have seen worse by ISIS and Boko Haram, but this was a video of Nigerian army officers, and that was just unbearable to me. There must be a difference between a terrorist group and a national army. The US has presented this tape to the Nigerian military, but they are still taking their time to investigate. What utter nonsense, especially when the video of their officers is rather clear. This is the same Nigerian army that rushed to publicly try a bunch of junior officers for mutiny, and handed down a verdict of guilty punishable by death on firing squad.
I'm sure that the Nigerian military can act quickly if they wish to do so, but they cannot drag their feet and still expect America to simply ship arms to them without asking appropriate questions. In February last year, I wrote an article on extra-judicial killings in Nigeria, (A conspiracy of silence…the silence of our politicians on extra-judicial killings) indicting the SARS wing of the Nigerian police. I received quite a few threats after that article, but I wasn't bothered at all. It is really up to us Nigerians to stand up and speak up against these injustices on our people. America can only refuse our military arms, which they can easily buy from willing markets like Russia, China, South Africa, and others, but it is our own outcries that will put pressure on these police and military officers from acting with impunity and getting away with it. And to those military generals who are whining that America is hindering their fight against the Boko Haram, perhaps it is time you all learn to operate an army worthy of the 21st century Nigeria. And in the meantime, kudos to our military for killing Abubakar Shakau once again or was it his imposter?



29 August, 2014

THE AMERICAN /NATO SATELLITES ......


 THE AMERICAN /NATO SATELLITES IN:

  • AFGHANISTAN  see   through  caves
  • CHINA see all the  airports
  • RUSSIA/UKRAINE see troop movements and their exact numbers
  • IRAQ  used  to se Sadam Hussien in all his  tunnels
  • LIBYA  saw   Ghadeffi  even in his  toilet
  • GAZA see everyone  and rocket launching pads
  • SYRIA see all ISIS  movements
  • IRAN sees  the  Ayothalah in the mosque  every Friday
  • EGYPT can tell exactly how many  stones  are thrown in TAHRIR  square and their  trajectories.
  • NIGER REPUBLIC , see the uranium deep under the soil.
  • SOUTH AFRICA see  all the Diamonds  under  the  soil
  • NORTH KOREA.  See all missiles  before  they are launched  and  follow them till explosion
  • NIGERIA. SEE AND  CAN SAY HOW MANY LITERS OF  PETROLEUM ARE  UNDER  THE  SEA IN  THE NIGER DELTA  BUT  CANNOT SEE ANYTHING IN THE FORESTS OF NORTHEAST, THE KIDNAPPED GIRLS  AND BOKO HARAM MOVEMENT
Sincerely, I do not  understand !!

11 May, 2014

Nigeria schoolgirl abductions: Five questions


Mothers of the missing Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists gather to receive information from officials on 5 May 2014





As international experts arrive in Nigeria to help in the hunt for more than 200 schoolgirls abducted three weeks ago by Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Nigeria analyst Andrew Walker answers five questions about the case:
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1: Where are the girls?
The abducted girls from the town of Chibok are thought to be held in the Sambisa forest, a remote and inaccessible area of country.
Nigerian soldiers patrol in the north of Borno state close to a Islamist extremist group Boko Haram former camp on 5 June 2013 near Maidugurimap
It has been reported that the forest is dense and impenetrable, but this is misleading.
The landscape at this latitude south of the Sahara is mostly grassland and scrub woods, with thickly wooded river gullies.
Ridges of granite stick through sandy soil in parts, making it impassable even by four-wheel drive vehicles.
There have been reports that the girls have been taken out of the country, perhaps into northern Cameroon, but this has not been confirmed.
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2: Who are the girls?
While the number of girls kidnapped has not been finally settled, the identities of some 180 were released by a Christian activist. These names have not been confirmed. Fifty-three have managed to escape.
In this photo taken Monday 21 April 2014, four female students of the secondary girls' school in Chibok, who were abducted by gunmen and manged to escape, are reunited with their families walk in Chibok, Nigeria
Southern Borno state is home to many Christian communities and it is thought the majority of the girls who have been taken are Christians.
A picture taken from a video distributed to some Nigerian journalists and obtained by AFP on 5 March 2013 showing Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau (C) flanked by six armed and hooded fighters in an undisclosed placeBut there are also Muslim girls among the abducted.
These divisions might not mean much to the people of Chibok, a small community where everyone knows everyone, and families are made up both Christians and Muslims.
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3: Why did Boko Haram abduct the girls?
The group condemns those who have been educated in the "Western" system, and is against the education of women.
It has also threatened in the past to kidnap Christian women in retaliation for the arrest of members' wives by the Nigerian security services.
The group's leadership also have a practical reason; insurgents on the move need camp followers and servants.
Women who have escaped in the past have said the group forcibly married captive women to favoured commanders as a reward, or used women as sex slaves for their troops.
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4: Why was Nigeria so slow to do anything?
Nigerians have become inured to daily tales of horror that come out of the north and politicians are not exempt from this.
Many people in Nigeria feel a sense of desperate fatalism about the conflict; for days it seemed the kidnapping was just another event in a campaign of violence that rumbles on without a clear solution.

Boko Haram at a glance

  • Founded in 2002
  • Initially focused on opposing Western education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language
  • Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state
  • Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria - also attacked police and UN headquarters in capital, Abuja
  • Some three million people affected
  • Declared terrorist group by US in 2013
The number of girls taken did not initially register, perhaps because in most news stories numbers are unreliable and routinely ignored.
Divisions among the political class in the run-up to next year's elections have also made things difficult.
The north-eastern states where Boko Haram is strongest are run by opposition governors, leading to a lack of trust between the central government and local leaders, and vice versa.
This, people around the government say, led to it distancing itself from the problem for fear of falling into a political trap.
But the government lacks the capacity to act effectively in many areas of governance - in energy policy, education, health, as well as security.
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5: Why did Nigeria change its mind on foreign assistance?
Nigeria is very prickly about its sovereignty.
Until now it has rejected requests to base Africom, the US military's African command centre, in the country. It favours funding its own, as yet unsuccessful, unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, programme.
People attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped school girls from the Chibok government secondary school, outside the defence headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday 6 May 2014
Under the global spotlight, and with delegations form many nations in the capital, Abuja, for the World Economic Forum for Africa this week, it has relented and allowed in foreign security advisers.
In the past President Goodluck Jonathan has asked for foreign governments to "support the Nigerian government's efforts" against Boko Haram - interpreted as a request for money.
Extra aid was not forthcoming then, but it may be now
 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27348354


28 October, 2012

Nigerian Stowaway Dies in Arik's Undercarriage

Nigerian Stowaway Dies in Arik's Undercarriage

The dead body of a young Nigerian man was discovered Friday in the wheel well, the undercarriage compartment of an Arik Air aircraft, after it returned from a flight to New York, United States.
One of the airline's officials who spoke to THISDAY said the deceased might have hidden himself in the wheel well for days and was crushed to death while the flight was airborne to the JF Kennedy Airport, New York, from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The official who spoke to THISDAY said the dead body was found during a check on the aircraft panel as it was being prepared for another flight and that the undercarriage compartment of the Airbus A340-500 is big enough to accommodate a person, besides the space for the tyres.
"He probably might have hidden himself there some days and died while the aircraft was on its way to New York. We found him when we were doing checks on the panel; the aircraft probably came back with him dead," the official said.
The source said that it is out of ignorance that people hide in the wheel well and plan to stowaway because "the compartment is not pressurised like the cabin of an aircraft and it is not heated, so survival is rare even if the person is not crushed by the wheels."
Pilots and aeronautical engineers familiar with the wheel well compartment said it is roomy enough to contain a human being, but it is highly unlikely that any one who hid there would come out alive after a flight that took several hours due to lack of oxygen.
The official attributed the incident to porous security at the airport, noting that "if having access to the airside is stringently prohibited, anybody that is not an official of airlines, handling companies and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria would not gain access to the tarmac."
Another source said: "The security at the airport is very bad and that explains why somebody can gain access to the airside and inside the aircraft and no one will know.
Security around the cargo area is even worse and from there anybody can take anything into the tarmac. Now, it is a human being that is smuggled in; one day a dangerous object will be smuggled in."
THISDAY investigations revealed that stowaways connive with ground handling companies to access the airside and the wheel well.
"The handling company workers and the security operatives indulge in a lot of illicit activities at the airport and over the years there have been efforts to put a check on such excesses but every effort has so far failed," said another source.
In March 2010, a Nigerian, Okechukwu Okeke was found dead in the nose wheel compartment of the United States carrier, Delta Airline, Boeing B777 aircraft parked on the tarmac of the Lagos airport
 

09 April, 2012

Mourning as police name Nigerian victim in U.S. shooting

Mourning as police name Nigerian victim in U.S. shooting
By Dele Fanimo and Gbenga Akinsanya with agency report

AS the Oakland shooting that resulted in the death of seven students of a Christian University in the city continued to elicit global condemnation, the Police in California, United States (U.S.), yesterday identified a Nigerian, Doris Chibuko, as one of the victims.





DorisMeanwhile, mourners began showing up at Chibuko's home as soon as the news filtered through the tight-knit Nigerian community in the U.S.

Chibuko had not been heard from since a gunman killed seven people at Oakland's Oikos University, where she had been studying, but police did not confirm the family's worst fears until late Tuesday afternoon.

As Efanye Chibuko stood inside the family home in the San Leandro hills, its walls covered with photographs of his wife and their three children, he sobbed: "She liked to spend time with her family. Right now, I'm just trying to grieve," her spouse, who is a technician at AT&Am, ruminated.

Chibuko, 40, and a mother of three, worked as a lawyer in Nigeria before joining her husband in the U.S. in 2002, who is based in the State of California.

A gunman identified as L Goh, 43, who was said to have boasted about violence, allegedly told students to "get in line and I'm going to kill you all" before he opened fire. By the time the cloud of smoke settled, seven students, including Chibuko, have been felled by the assailant's bullet.

Goh, a former nursing student in the university, was said to have earlier complained that he was disrespected by younger students and was thousands of dollars in debt.

Chibuko, one of the victims, was described by her husband of 10 years as "a very happy person, very caring, very loving."

Chibuko, who worked part time at Villa Fairmont Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre in San Leandro, was two months away from graduating with a degree in nursing before the gunman killed her and six others in Oikos University in what has been described as one of the worst school shooting incidents in California.

By nightfall Tuesday, as many as 100 people from all over California had crowded in the Chibukos' home.

Some mourners even travelled from outside the state. Friends and relatives wept as they remembered the gifted mother and friend.

"For we Nigerians, when something hurts one family, it hurts all of us," said Christian Okeke, a long time family friend from Nigeria and a law professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. "Yesterday, everyone was praying it wouldn't be true, but now it is. It's devastating, very devastating."

Doris Chibuko was born in Enugu State. She went to Law School and worked as a lawyer in Nigeria.

She met Efanye in the university, and in 2002, they were married in a big traditional wedding. That same year, the couple immigrated to the U.S., where they had three children who are now aged three, five and eight .
http://odili.net/news/source/2012/apr/5/29.html

31 October, 2009

Nigerian Team Racks Up Points at Youth World Cup


By Brent Latham Kano, Nigeria30 October 2009

Nigeria's national youth football (soccer) team has represented the host nation well thus far in the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, with two good performances to start the tournament.


With a win over Honduras in its second match of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, Nigeria's young footballers have virtually assured their spot in the elimination rounds of this year's youth World Cup, being played across Nigeria.The Golden Eaglets, as the team comprised of players seventeen and younger is known here, edged the Central Americans, 1-0, on a second half goal by Abdul Ajagun. While the team has players with great individual skill, Nigerian Coach John Obuh said they also play well as a unit. "We did play together. You can have individual players that can play together. We still have those, but I think we played together in the second half," he said,xz


In the victory, Nigeria put in a strong second-half performance for the second straight match. In their opening game, the Golden Eaglets fell behind by three to European champions Germany, only to rally back with three second half goals to salvage a vital tie. Nigeria is now likely to advance out of a very difficult group that, aside from Germany and Honduras, also includes perennial football power Argentina.


The hosts face the Argentinians, who have won both of their matches so far, Saturday night in Bauchi, in a game that will decide which team wins the group.The Nigerians may not be anxious to move on from Abuja, where large crowds have gotten behind them at the national stadium. Over 42 thousand spectators were on hand for the match with Honduras. The Honduran coach, Eugenio Umanzor, said the boisterous partisan crowd was a factor in the game, but that the play on the field was the key.


The coach said his players had seldom experienced an environment like the one they faced in Abuja. He added that the Nigerian side looked ready to defend the title they won in the previous edition of the tournament, played in 2007 in South Korea.The Under-17 World Cup is played once every two years. This year's champion will be crowned on November 15th at the National Stadium in Abuja.

19 September, 2009

Son to Nigeria’s newly appointed Ambassador to US accused of rape

Sep 19, 2009
We are Embarrassed — Senators


By Victor Omoregie & Emma AzikenAdedamola son of Nigeria Ambassador-designate to the US Professor Tunde Adediran was charged with rape in the US. It happened in Maryland, and he is now charged with gang_raping three women in the city of Baltimore, according to ABC_2 News, a local Baltimore television station. However Prof. Adeniran in Nigeria confirmed that Adedamola is his son but feigned ignorance of the rape charges.Maryland police say on July 27th, two women accepted a ride from two men near North Calvert and West Fayette streets in Downtown Baltimore. But instead of driving them home, police say the men got on I_95 south, threatened the women with a knife, and drove them to the parking lot of Seton Keough High School in Southwest Baltimore. There, police say the women were both raped by the two men and a third man who arrived later.

Professor Tunde Adeniran and son Adedamola
Three men were charged in the case, 19_year_old Adedamola Adeniran of Halethorpe, along with 19_year_old Anthony Edoror and 20_year_old Opeyemi Adigun, who both live near Woodlawn.
On August 18, an identical attack took place, but the victim was able to identify the licence plate of the car to the police, thereby leading the police to one of the suspects. She identified the other two men.


Apart from the rape charges against his son, Nigeria’s ambassador_in_waiting, who was appointed over five months ago, faces potential hurdles to his clearance to assume his exalted position in Washington DC. State Department officials said that Professor Adeniran has two wives in the US bearing his name, which effectively makes him a polygamist. They said it is a grey area that needed to be sorted out before he can be finally cleared.
In addition to rape, Adedamola and the other two men also face charges that include false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit rape. If convicted, they could spend the rest of their lives in prison.


We are Embarrassed — Senators
This rejection arose from criminal proceedings being instituted against his son who has been charge along side other fellow Nigerians for statutory rape in the US. In the US, public office holders are liable to infraction by their families. So it is expected that anybody, even representatives of foreign countries and members of their families, should be above board morally, financially and other wise.
What remains now is the reaction of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to this diplomatic move.
Embarrassed Senators of the Foreign Affairs Committee have said they would not have cleared Professor Tunde Adeniran as Ambassador nominee to the United States of America if they knew his son was facing rape charges in America.
Their reaction was part of the storm of protests from leading politicians, trade union activists academics and lawyers that greeted the rejection of professor Tunde Adeniran by the United States of America, as Nigeria’s Ambassador nominee.


The common refrain was that Professor Adeniran,s rejection has brought shame to the country.Prof. Adeniran was reportedly rejected by the United States government as Nigeria’s envoy to that country on account of his son’s alleged involvement in serial gang rape in the United States.
His son Adedamola 20, is reportedly held in custody in the United States without bail alongside two other Nigerians allegedly involved in the gang rape of some American girls.
Senators Effiong Bob (PDP, Akwa Ibom Northeast) and Abubakar Sodangi (PDP, Nasarawa West) both members of the Senate committee on Foreign Affairs which cleared Adeniran before his approval by the Senate claimed that they were not aware of the alleged criminal inclination of the nominee’s son. A third member of the committee, Senator Osita Izunaso (PDP, Imo West) claimed ignorance of the alleged indictment of Prof. Adeniran’s son and did not comment on the issue.
Chairman of the Senate committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Jibril Aminu could not be reached as at press time on the development.
“That fact was not before us that is why we conducted all these hearings so that people who have established facts could have briefed us, so I am not aware except reading of it today (yesterday) in the paper,’’ Senator Bob told Saturday Vanguard yesterday on telephone.
“We were not aware of the criminal allegation against the son and if we were aware the man would not have been cleared,’’ he further affirmed.
Speaking in the same tone, Senator Sodangi said:
“I am just hearing of it from you. It is very embarrassing if it is true and it is a matter of investigation and if it has happened it is actually a very, very embarrassing situation to the Professor himself and as well to the country.’’ “Of course we have people who are very clean who have no skeleton in their cupboards that we can take.”
Senator Sodangi said that the case if established was another reason why parents should show godly examples to their children. “This is a lesson to all of us that we should be living above board and that we should be very godly because if we bring up our boys wrongly their misbehavior will affect us one day and even above all, in the hereafter.’’